Word: southern
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Science last week appeared a report announcing discovery and classification of a great stream of galaxies, the greatest of metagalactic clouds. It is 50,000,000 light-years long, 20,000,000 wide. Discovered on plates taken at Harvard's Southern Hemisphere station in South Africa, it lies athwart the sky near the Fouth celestial pole. Fifteen thousand galaxies or "island universes" were counted in it, all of them below the 16th magnitude in brightness. At first the cloud was classed simply as a "major irregularity." But the savants at Cambridge reasoned that it must contain at least...
White Bondage (Warner). Gordon Oliver and Jean Muir in a Southern sharecropper melodrama, complete with bloodhounds and lynch...
Seventeen diplomas were handed out between speeches. Had he not failed to appear, James Roosevelt would have got one "for his reply to the President of Brazil, thanking him for the decoration of the Brazilian Order of the Southern Cross, fully earned because nobody knew what James Roosevelt said, not even those who understood Spanish."*Attorney General Homer Stille Cummings was honored "in anticipation of his first argument before a packed Supreme Court...
...Southern Baptist coeducational institution, not to be confused with Howard University at Washington, D. C., whose student body is largely Negro...
...close; his disappointed father put him to work on his grandfather's farm near Portsmouth. Once more drink and an unguarded tongue fouled him with the authorities. He left town in a hurry, headed for General Amherst's French & Indian-fighting army at Crown Point, at the southern end of Lake Champlain. There he enlisted in Rogers' famed Rangers, just in time to join the heroic two months' march on and retreat from St. Francis, Canadian Indian village that had been the hornet-nest base for many a raid against the frontier settlements of New England...